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1st Sergeant B W Bendure, Headquarters Company, 194th Engineering Combat Battalion, 8th US Army, with "Scoshi" (Japanese word for "small" usually romanised as Sukoshi), an adopted orphan of the battalion, sitting on his lap. Sergeant Bendure is promoting the project of collecting funds for the young Korean boy, found by men of the Battalion the previous winter. The money will be used for the child's education.